I finished a new animated Twitter thread for work. This one is on planet collisions. Woah! You can see it here. It's nine tweets in all. I wrote about getting feedback on my animated Twitter threads earlier. I was sad because I was told about how bad and unpolished my work was. Well, after all… Continue reading Scicomm made polished, part 3
When I make animations with kids, part of the point is that other kids will want to watch the stories and learn something about the environment and about science on the way. Well, after I had finished "When Anders, Dilsa, and Reza were mean: a bird story" with the kids at a local summer camp,… Continue reading Honest feedback from kids
I am making this list based on certain online sleuthings I made a few months ago. There was an art competition announced ... and it was an art competition that specifically had to do with satellites and climate change. Those were two topics heavily featured in my PhD dissertation, so I thought, why not enter?… Continue reading The best science artists (according to the European Space Agency)
I've had a song from the 1989 Eurovision stuck in my head. As I was editing/fixing/polishing/rendering the animations for McAllister Elementary, I listened to it on repeat, as I do, making handy use of the YouTube refresh button. It was still on my computer when I dashed to McAllister the very day before our viewing… Continue reading Animations with kids and old Eurovision songs
I just finished re-reading Anne of Avonlea (the sequel to Anne of Green Gables.) In that book, Anne is sixteen-and-a-half years old and starts teaching, and of course, she becomes the best teacher the kids ever had. I always liked reading this book. I loved reading about Anne as a teacher. Except this time when… Continue reading Me and Anne Shirley teaching: Animations with Kids
I poked around some online examples and tutorials. This snail was super cute and ended up being my inspiration! Can't get any cuter. And then this was a nice and straight-forward tutorial for making the spiral shell, which I stuck on top of the snail. He's a little lop-sided and one-eyed, and after all, that… Continue reading Making a snail in Blender
After some rough days, I just had one of the best lessons I conducted today at Wolf Meadow. This was with a group of kids whose lesson last week was a complete wash, mostly due to some miscalculations on my and my partner teacher's part. Well, we tried again this week, and it went so… Continue reading Quiet pause in the class
A few months ago, I was trying to create a film of various images and clips of footage. However, all the footage was in various speeds - some in 6 frames per second (is that speed a crime in the film world?) and some in 30 frames per second. So when I added in the… Continue reading A film with different speeds
Usually, I make animations, so I just have the rendered images all in a row, and then a single audio file - somewhat chopped up, but still coming from a single file. But a few months ago, I made more of a traditional "movie" made up of single images, bits of videos, and lots of… Continue reading Video editing
It was really nice! The kids in the two classrooms said their movie was 'amazing', 'awesome', 'terrific', etc, etc. This was all in front of their parents. I was really happy with the number of parents who showed. In one of the classrooms, there were like 10! I got surveys from each and every one.… Continue reading First viewing party – Butterfly story
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